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Han Hong

1971 - Today

By: Donald Tang | Date Added:

Han Hong is a Chinese singer and songwriter of mixed Tibetan and Han ethnicity. She was born in Chamdo on September 26, 1971. Like her mother, a Tibetan singer, Han Hong is able to shift quite easily from piercing high pitches to soft low tones. Han Hong is one of the most popular Chinese female musicians who specializes in a variety of Chinese folk music. Most of Han's work reflect the Tibetan culture, but Han also use elements of Jazz, R-n-B, Rock-n-Roll and Latin music in her music work. Her music mainly deals with Tibetan themes but she is also influenced by Jazz, R-n-B, Rock-n-Roll and Latin music, which are all reflected in her work. She is able to shift quite easily from piercing high pitches to soft low tone. Her singing has distinctive Tibetan characteristics. She's able to shift freely from piercing high pitches to soft low tones. Han joined the children's choir in 1980 and received formal training. In 1987, she joined the PLA second artillery corps command. She began composing songs starting in 1993 which became much more prominent on the later years, including media considering herself invited as a headline singer in the Beijing music scene. In 1995, she was admitted to the music department of the Chinese people's liberation army college and learned from Li Shuangjiang. In 1999, she adopted a ​2 1⁄2-year-old boy named "Han Houhou", who had lost his parents on October 3, 1999 in an accident due to an overloaded cable car at the Maling River Canyon near Xingyi, Guizhou Province, which had left 14 dead, 22 injured. She commemorates this in her song "Daybreak". She came to prominence after 2002. She performed in a Chinese television gala broadcast after the Olympic closing ceremony on August 24, 2008. She also performed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony on September 5, 2008. In Oct 2015, she became the CEO of Hualu Entertainment company, which includes businesses of creating Television episodes, creating original shows, and managing performances. On December 20, 2014, Han was also invited to Hunan TV's singing competition I Am a Singer in which she won, making her the first female winner to win the series. Han later returned for two more seasons in the fourth and fifth seasons, both as guest performer in the Biennial concert airing after the live finals. Han's signature works are Tibetan Plateau and Heaven's Road. Tibetan Plateau is very famous and went international. Vitas, the famous Russian singer, sang this song in duet at the BTV Spring Global Gala 2010. Heaven's Road is a folk song released on April 20, 2005 in her Album "Moved" to celebrate the opening of a railway to Tibet in 2006. Written in 2001, the song is very popular in China.

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